The American Father

Wade C. Mackey

ISBN 10: 1489902414 / ISBN 13: 9781489902412

Edité par Springer US, Chapman And Hall/CRC Jun 2013, 2013

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In The American Father, Wade C. Mackey documents a wealth of infor mation demonstrating the vast benefits to society when its children are raised in families with fathers. The biopsychosocial approach Mackey in human employs is consistent with the current treatment of topics development. This approach-which is grounded in a variety of diverse sources-assumes that we understand little about people when we study them a bit at a time; rather, the fullness of the individual requires a fullness of examination. For example, in the cases of fathers, we note that humans do not reproduce alone; after all, we are not an asexual species. No, human reproduction and its sequelae are social, just as clearly as they are biological, and involve the whole panoply of psychic function (mo tivation, sociability, intelligence, and the like). The evidence marshaled by Mackey indicates strongly that indi viduals and societies have an essential requirement for something more than mothering; they also need fathering. Much of the discourse and publication on fathers during the past several decades has been posited on a 'more is better' model of male parenting in which it is seldom stated who it is better for-the father, the child, the mother, the couple, or the family. Further, much of this discussion infers that fathers are merely 'Mr. Moms'; yet this is not so. 284 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: The American Father
• Éditeur: Springer US, Chapman And Hall/CRC Jun 2013
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1489902414
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781489902412
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 155 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 435 grammes

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In The American Father, Wade C. Mackey documents a wealth of infor- mation demonstrating the vast benefits to society when its children are raised in families with fathers. The biopsychosocial approach Mackey in human employs is consistent with the current treatment of topics development. This approach-which is grounded in a variety of diverse sources-assumes that we understand little about people when we study them a bit at a time; rather, the fullness of the individual requires a fullness of examination. For example, in the cases of fathers, we note that humans do not reproduce alone; after all, we are not an asexual species. No, human reproduction and its sequelae are social, just as clearly as they are biological, and involve the whole panoply of psychic function (mo- tivation, sociability, intelligence, and the like). The evidence marshaled by Mackey indicates strongly that indi- viduals and societies have an essential requirement for something more than mothering; they also need fathering. Much of the discourse and publication on fathers during the past several decades has been posited on a "more is better" model of male parenting in which it is seldom stated who it is better for-the father, the child, the mother, the couple, or the family. Further, much of this discussion infers that fathers are merely "Mr. Moms"; yet this is not so.